"The Holy Mosques" announces:

"Recently, a deeply disturbing and fabricated AI-generated video falsely portraying Sheikh Dr. Abdur Rahman Al-Sudais, the Head of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque, has gone viral on various social media platforms. The distorted clip was maliciously edited to make it appear as though Sheikh Sudais was endorsing content that clearly contradicts Islamic teachings."

That's exactly why some institutions or public figures have to sign their posts. You just can't trust legacy social media.

Payment services like PayPal or Strike are really doing their best to advertise Bitcoin, whether they mean to or not. Last year, Strike held back a payment I got from overseas, labeled me as untrustworthy 🙂, and froze my account. Even after weeks of back-and-forth emails, nothing moved forward.

And now PayPal just decided to hold a payment I received today for 21 days. Their reason? I haven’t used PayPal as a recipient before. They say if I had 10 regular incoming payments, this kind of treatment wouldn’t happen.

Well, that’s not gonna happen. From now on, I’m only accepting Bitcoin for international payments.

Thinking of writing a quick how-to guide—like, how to download a good Lightning app, buy Sats through a connected exchange service, and then use those Sats to pay someone.

Anyone know a super simple app for that? The Lightning wallets are mostly good enough—it’s really the exchange integration, where you can directly buy Bitcoin into your Lightning wallet, that’s the tricky part. Are there any without KYC?

Remember when they used to tell us that we were all going to get brain cancer from cell phone radiation? Was that all just bullshit or what?

Where do you get custom or generic icons for your software? #asknostr

I'm simple man. I see somebody post "GM", I mute him. 😀

You know what bothers me about social media in general? These artificial thought and mood worlds that are collectively built, maintained, and defended.

For some, it’s all about constant outrage and doom-and-gloom, while for others, it’s all about the implied success, whether in business or in the superficial (unearned) beauty and lifestyle realm ("posing"). Then there are those who are always in a fit of laughter, from sarcasm and schadenfreude to silly memes.

Nostr isn’t immune to this either. There’s a kind of cult-like worship of developers, lifestyle, and so-called freedom. But overall, these collective moods are anything but realistic; they feel more like a mass delusion, no matter the direction.

All driven by that youthful desire for belonging and recognition.

To be honest, I'm too old to get caught up in those mass narratives and illusions. That just doesn't work anymore after a certain age. Let the kids play.

I stand by my old opinion: real social media is just one-on-one chats or phone calls. At least you get the real vibe of the other person authentically.

Second tip of the day:

Just because someone is on Nostr doesn't mean they're automatically smart.

X is doing so poorly financially that they will soon start selling dead, inactive user handles. 😄

Lightningtrophia: the act or condition of having a compulsive need to collect multiple lightning wallets regardless of need.

Did you know ... you can wash cars with drones

Some people love to play the tough guy on social media, hiding behind a fake name and acting all combative, especially here on Nostr. You can toss that nonsense out the window. What we really need aren’t these fake displays of masculinity from attention-seeking, late-blooming kids who are out of touch with reality, but real strategies and tactics for dealing with the world as it is—no matter how limiting it might be.

Anyone can beat their chest like King Kong and shout. Even my 7-year-old can do that. But real men stand out from little boys by navigating the harsh realities of life without cowardly hiding behind fake identities.

What a lot of website operators, even those based outside the Eurozone, don’t realize is that as soon as they offer their products or services to European customers, they fall under European data protection laws (GDPR). The GDPR, with all its details (like a complete privacy policy, cookie consent banner, imprint, etc.), becomes mandatory for them as soon as their website reaches European customers. If they want to avoid this, they would need to actively use technical measures to block Europeans from accessing their website.

I’m not a lawyer and can’t provide specific details, but as far as I understand this issue, negative consequences can hit them as soon as someone is willing to go through the whole bureaucratic process. And that process exists if you ask AI. Just being on the other side of the pond doesn’t automatically protect you from it.

As promised, here is the review of @npub1get...0nfm 's website:

Haha, Muzz Match integrates AI makeup and filter remover. Now we just need an AI that can remove real makeup from photos, essentially reverse-engineering the real face, and the guys will get a true impression of who they will wake up next to the next morning. 😄

I don't think I need to mention that I never pull any stupid April Fools' jokes. I make jokes, I lie... but I never do April Fools' jokes. It's too silly for me. I'm too cool for that.

Hmm, it looks like Brave is indeed the better browser when it comes to privacy and LibreWolf is overrated.

Zen Browser:

LibreWolf:

Brave:

Test your browser here: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Do you want to see who reported you for spam?

Easiest way:

1. Log into https://nosta.me/

2. Scroll down and see

Well, I guess it's 'game over' for that idea then.

The governments of this planet haven't been able to successfully fight Bitcoin itself, but they've definitely managed to combat the establishment of a circular economy based on it.

Taxes.

On both sides, for consumers and providers. Instead of spouting off dumb, tiring slogans about Bitcoin, we should have focused on making the practical side—like how to handle Bitcoin spending and income from a tax perspective—well-known to the public. But we didn't. Instead, we just kept patting each other on the back for being such great nerds who understand Bitcoin. In theory. Failed.

There aren't even enough usable tools for it, like a simple Bitcoin cash book with fiat tax management. But there are millions of Lightning wallets that only offer a crappy CSV export at best. And they can't even get that right.

@npub1zv7...82ke , I'm talking to you. How come your CSV exports in my tax tool end up showing a -1 sat balance (instead of zero)? I've gone through all the entries manually a thousand times and reached out to you. No response. And that's just stacking. Total fail. Other exchanges also. Crappy CSV exports. Hours wasted.

The glorious Bitcoin community couldn't counter this trick from the governments and just kept burping about "self-custody."

By the way, shameless self-plug, I also offer Bitcoin consultancy services for businesses in my area. The practical side, not the theoretical side. Hardly any business gives a damn about it.

Have you all ever tried to set up a real international small business based on Bitcoin? If not, then just be quiet—you can't really talk about it.

You can't rely on the much-praised anonymization measures either; businesses need to be transparently accounted for. All it takes is one customer on the other side mentioning a Bitcoin purchase from you in their tax return, and you're in trouble. It might be 8-10 years later, but eventually, you'll be in the hot seat.

Just sit down, stack and hodl. And pray that they don't come up with even more crap, like taxes on unrealized gains. Because then you can also forget about hodling.

It seems to be running really well. It is written in Go so it is pretty quick and I have a filter on the fetch command that filters out all pictures and media so it's text only. It's the IRC of nostr clients. I might actually drop a beta and see what you animals can tear up. #Fetchstr